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The protagonist of Eva Baltasar’s novel “Mammoth” contains multitudes, and that’s the way she likes it.

In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.

Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight for respect.

Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

In “Martyr!,” the poet Kaveh Akbar turns a grieving young man’s search for meaning into a piercing family saga.

A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.

In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.

“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.

In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of social surveillance.